Timothy5509's in-car videos

[Timothy5509]

Didn't have much useful footage from saturday, my camera battery was dead. Here is my fastest run from sunday, wish I had another run to clean it up a bit. It's a bit dark due to the cloud cover and rain about 10 mins after this run.

Event 11: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VbOTKVeJaO4

[tom1977]

that was a very good run, very consistent. I know, I know, we can clean up our runs...lol great vid!
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[Timothy5509]

Videos from the first weekend at RFR. I didn't do well, maybe a tire modifier for 400+ tread wear would have helped me. lol

Event 12: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UBe2y2E15oo

Event 13: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DBcWlUjdnOY

And a blooper reel: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n_jjSPF9VKY

[sperry]

Blooper reel!! :lol:

Man, watching mistakes is like 10 times more entertaining than watching MattR's boring laps in the other thread. :P

Thanks for being a good sport and posting them up!

[AlexR]

so that's how the the gravel got there. i got to hop out and sweep that section before the start of my work group. hehehe :)

Good stuff, good driving minus a few booboos ;)

[Timothy5509]

so that's how the the gravel got there. i got to hop out and sweep that section before the start of my work group. hehehe :)



I thought you liked racing in gravel/dirt lol, but I helped clean it up too.

[tom1977]

hey, at least you where using all seasons!
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[GarthB]

Your event 12 run looked great!

[Timothy5509]

Here are the videos from the final solo weekend of the year.

Saturday event 16: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zNlUwsUu6ic

Sunday event 17: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rUlHDPse4QE

Sunday afternoon in the rain: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=31yag3KaaEk

I really like the view with the camera on the roll bar, I think this is gonna be my main camera mounting position from now on.

[solonut]

Tim...good vids & good job as co-chair

[tom1977]

great runs! looks like you didn't need the 400+ treadwear modifier this time!
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[Timothy5509]

Here is some video from the PDX on Oct 30. Not solo videos, but better than another thread for me.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x7k14pfmo1U

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9j1frj6uJ_4

And one from the test and tune on sunday, we ran course B.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HDEqiBkzAVs

[Dean]

Chasing Subaru...

Chief instructor critique mode on for both you and Van.

I can't see Van as well, so he won't get as much attention. :)

In general, you are both doing very well and have pretty good lines. I am just offering encouragement on places to work on.

Tim, I would suggest you work on eliminating shuffle steering everywhere!!! It will smooth out your steering inputs and corrections. Might have to change your seating position. Your arms look a little straight.

Also work on turning your head the direction you want to go earlier. You do it great in 9a!!! And get a little more rumble strip in a lot of places.

Van, You are hugging 22, let the car track out.

I think you both cheated the turn in a bit on 23.

Tim, turns 1, 1a,1b relax and get your eyes to the turn 2 worker station. You appear to be turning a second time especially 1a and 1b to catch the "right amount" of each rumble strip rather than having a smooth flow that takes you there.

Turn 2, I like your line but you then miss the apex at 3. Move the downshift before 2 to after and/or add a brake tap between them. Adding a little throttle as you track out of 2 will force you to do something. :)

T4 Not sure, but it sounds like you only lift. Add a tap of brake at turn in and get back on the throttle earlier. Should help you catch more rumble strip. Also allows you to power out of 3 more!

Van doesn't look like he is braking either but makes more rumble.

T5 Van, turning too much! No reason to be mid track after this turn 1/2-1 car width off left side dirt is fine.

Tim, Turn a little harder at the bottom so you can straighten the wheel and add throttle pre apex.

8A Van, hug the left side all the way to turn in for 9A.

I don't think either of you tap the brakes before 9a which is why you don't make the apex. It is tighter than 8a and you have been going downhill... Remember, Gas, Brake, Turn... Repeat!!!

19 Tim, you are a bit early. Did you tap the brakes? being a little later at turn in would allow you to accelerate through a later apex.

20 Was that an apex? :)

Again, you are both doing great, keep up the good work.

Chasing S2000.

Mostly the same critique but better in 1,1A,1B...

Sunday.

Again, in general, very good.

More slalom of 9a,10,10a will set you up better for 11 so you can get on the gas earlier.

14 is tighter than 13. tap, turn, and track all the way out...

15 cheated turn in and probably too late of a turn in.

[tom1977]

looks like i need to take another pdx so dean can give me pointers too! :D
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[Timothy5509]

Turn 2, I like your line but you then miss the apex at 3. Move the downshift before 2 to after and/or add a brake tap between them.

I see exactly what you mean, I moved the down shift later on sunday and it was working better.


More slalom of 9a,10,10a will set you up better for 11 so you can get on the gas earlier.

I had a bit of trouble setting up for that section correctly, I think I am carrying to much speed into it.


14 is tighter than 13. tap, turn, and track all the way out...

I had a real hard time with this section all day long, 13 is alot slower and longer than it looks.


Thanks for the pointers Dean.

[GaryG]

Hey Tim, the videos look good. Thanks to you and Tom for the advice on Sunday. I found my right side calipers were hanging up when I got home. Based on watching your lines Sunday and when I was following Van on Saturday I can certainly use a lot more training and track time.
Thank you

[Alan. M]

i like the track videos, how much was your go pro camera

[Timothy5509]

i like the track videos, how much was your go pro camera

They camera was just under $300 with a 8 gig memory card. It came with a few different mounts including the suction cup that I was using for most of my solo videos. I bought a roll bar mount for around 30-40 and that is what I used for the track videos. I am very pleased with the camera and quality, finding software that supports 1080p or 60fps is a bit tough or a bit expensive though.

[Dean]

If you want to go cheap, almost any digital camera made in the past 5 years will shoot 640x480 30fps video and has a nice standard 1/4"x20 mount hole.

I fabbed up a "Lowes" aluminum mount and 2 eBay gimbles for under $25 a few years back for the STI and use 2 cameras one forward and one back facing.

[Timothy5509]

Here is a video of my PDX run last Saturday. Was alot of fun and I think I eliminated all of that hand shuffling from my last time out, thanks Dean for commenting on my past video.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BUQBA-sMYjk

And seeing how people enjoyed my solo blooper reel here is one from PDX.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sIDfapGYvYI

[Ryan]

Nice driving Tim! You couldn't handle the pressure of me chasing you and thats why you spun!! haha just kidding, had an awesome time out there trying to chase you down, cant wait for the next one!

[tom1977]

Great driving on the first vid! Even saw you looking in the rearview at passing zones...Were you trying to catch air at the hoot n hollar?!

[Timothy5509]

Were you trying to catch air at the hoot n hollar?!

I just tried a little to hard. I now know how much extra grip I get from the hill though.

On another note, how do I edit the title of my thread? Maybe I just have to create a new one.

[sperry]

I just tried a little to hard. I now know how much extra grip I get from the hill though.

On another note, how do I edit the title of my thread? Maybe I just have to create a new one.
You can't. But I can... want me to remove "solo" from the title?

[Timothy5509]

You can't. But I can... want me to remove "solo" from the title?


Yes, that is exactly what I wanted to do. Thank you.

[Timothy5509]

A bit late on the videos this time around. Wasn't sure which run was fastest on Saturday, so had to wait for the results to get posted. And I forgot to charge the camera and didn't capture any good runs of Sunday.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qwCslDoDu04

[RenoRotary]

Nice run Tim, it looked very clean.

I'm thinking I need to get a gopro, it would be nice to be able to analyze your runs after the fact, or maybe torturous, haha.

[Kevin M]

Wow Tim, you've gotten very, very smooth in the short time you've been racing with us. You do a great job of keeping your eyes down the course and you set up your lines nicely, no fighting the car to get through the tight left and the hairpins. The main critique I'd give is that you should learn to stop shuffle steering, but after the first 1/3 of the course you were doing it a lot less. Other than that, just take that smoothness and start pushing the car a little harder- it was only the last 2 elements where I could hear the tires starting to sing.

You're doing great!

[Timothy5509]

Thanks for the comments. Derek, it is a very helpful tool, if you look further back in this thread you can see the help I have got. I didn't realize I shuffle steered that much until someone commented about my PDX video. this last weekend with the first corner be the the timing lights being so sharp, it takes me a little bit to get my hands back where I want them.

[tom1977]

Good run tim...looks smooth. Good PAX as well, WOW!

[dknv]

That was fun!

Wow, you don't curse or anything while your racing? Maybe that's my downfall. :lol:

Would you say that track days have been somewhat helpful too?

Nice job!

[Timothy5509]

I would not say the track days didn't help, but it is a lot different driving style. Track seems quite a bit smoother than auto-x, a little more time to make sure you are on the right line. Auto-x is very fast pace quick inputs, and a little mistake cost a significant amount of time. Not that the same mistake would cost you less on the track, but a tenth of a second is a lot bigger on a 50 second lap than a 3 minute lap. But I have yet to be timed on track, doing club trials next event.

[Tim.Flat4]

That was a very smooth run. Nice driving Timothy!

Where exactly was your camera mounted? That's a great angle.

[dsmith]

I would not say the track days didn't help, but it is a lot different driving style. Track seems quite a bit smoother than auto-x, a little more time to make sure you are on the right line. Auto-x is very fast pace quick inputs, and a little mistake cost a significant amount of time. Not that the same mistake would cost you less on the track, but a tenth of a second is a lot bigger on a 50 second lap than a 3 minute lap. But I have yet to be timed on track, doing club trials next event.

I've never been able to see any benefit from track days to solo either, although to me the reverse - solo experience benefitting track - is there.

[Timothy5509]

That was a very smooth run. Nice driving Timothy!

Where exactly was your camera mounted? That's a great angle.


I have it mounted on my roll bar on the cross brace. I really enjoy the camera angle, shows my movements and still shows outside the car too. Probably the closest to a 2 camera setup as I can get with just the one.

http://i41.photobucket.com/albums/e268/Timothy5509/P5020163.jpg

[Timothy5509]

Had a lot of fun on Saturday. Ran a new configuration and learned quite a bit on and off the track. I was getting progressively smoother through the day.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m2dTQDzwuJU

I have a full video of what I ran of the CT race. I ended it a little short for myself, I started over driving and after a big mistake decided it was enough. I guess it is the race and my blooper reel all in one.

[solonut]

Nice vid Tim....Love the way you turned around to check out your dust cloud

[tom1977]

Nice vid Tim....Love the way you turned around to check out your dust cloud
I think that is the most creative "gonna pit now" move I have seen! Good laps Tim!

[Timothy5509]

I had Tom co driving with me over the weekend. Saturday morning was just a bunch of sliding around and then with all the issues right after the first run group, I have no clue how I did or what was my fastest run.

Sunday's course was a lot better in terms of grip and in my opinion more fun. Here is my fast fun from Sunday

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xh7bGcRiltI

And here is a video of how much fun two guys can have in a miata.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mgzvM_P2htM

[RenoRotary]

I like the videos Tim, I'm glad you had the footage of you catching that slide and whipping it back the other way on video, it looked awesome from outside the car.

And for some reason Tom insisted on staring at me every time he went by, as can be seen in video #1, while making a variety of hand gestures.

[k-dogg39]

And here is a video of how much fun two guys can have in a miata.

:eek::lol:

Nice vids Tim!

[dknv]

lol, fun vid!

I hope hand gestures given, were freely returned hehehe.

[Kevin M]

lol, fun vid!

I hope hand gestures given, were freely returned hehehe.

K-dogg and MattR had an awesome exchange along those lines Saturday afternoon. Kev made a nifty turn to somehow dodge a cone coming on to the back taxiway, and Matt jumped up and yelled with his arms in the air in triumph. Kev looked at him funny... then intentionally tipped over Matt's farthest cone on his next run. :lol:

[k-dogg39]

K-dogg and MattR had an awesome exchange along those lines Saturday afternoon. Kev made a nifty turn to somehow dodge a cone coming on to the back taxiway, and Matt jumped up and yelled with his arms in the air in triumph. Kev looked at him funny... then intentionally tipped over Matt's farthest cone on his next run. :lol:
:lol:

Ya, sorry about that Matt. :P :devil:

[Cody]

Nice run!

[Skyhorse]

you two should get a room ohhhh thats right you did

[tom1977]

you two should get a room ohhhh thats right you did
Glad you had that cot? I guess you should stay in a hotel room with us next time if you were that uncomfortable...Just sayin'....:eek:

[Timothy5509]

It was a very fun day at the track. I learned a lot, especially driving in the rain behind a pack of cars and how to be patient and back off to create a gap to set a lap with.

Club Trials Race:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ciJqvDrUbJ4

[tom1977]

Great video, and great landing after the toilet bowl! I heard you laughing at Eric and Ralph AGAIN!!!!

[sperry]

Wow... looks like I got the hell outta there just in time to avoid the rain! :lol:

[Timothy5509]

Here is my video from the CT race yesterday. Skip to the 3:00 mark for the start of the race, not much to see on the out lap.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h3URtnUn3qc

[Timothy5509]

Had a fun day today, went out to RFR for a test and tune. Just bought new rims and tires so wanted to burn off what was left on my old ones. I feel I achieved that and them maybe went a little past that.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pN27gXWR6Xc

And I must have subconsciously checked to make sure my pants where dry, they were :):lol:

[Dean]

Um, were they corded before the slides and spin?

Might I suggest more rumble strips, a little more maintenance throttle in esses and smoother inputs???

[Alan. M]

I feel like I should a kept the video vbox in your car for the end of the day, haha that was intense

[Timothy5509]

Um, were they corded before the slides and spin?

Might I suggest more rumble strips, a little more maintenance throttle in esses and smoother inputs???

They were not corded, but fairly close. And there isn't any maintenance throttle, just full throttle, I don't lift until the braking area for turn 2.

[Dean]

They were not corded, but fairly close. And there isn't any maintenance throttle, just full throttle, I don't lift until the braking area for turn 2.Watched it again slower/bigger. Can't tell for sure, better sound might help, but it looks like you were late, did not make the rumble strip in 1, turned too hard for it and had to turn too early/hard to make 1A which means you turned in when the car was light over the bump. You also appear to look down and right at the apex of 1A right before you get there rather than up the track to 2/3 which contributes to off-line and abrupt turn in.

Hope I am not being too critical. I like to analyze things and figure out why... I appreciate you posting the video.

That said... back to PDX B with you. ;)

Vision, Vision, Vision...

[Timothy5509]

I came to a similar conclusion of what caused my spin. I made my turn into 1B before my car completely settled from the bump, most likely because I turned into 1A to late. As for the sound I don't know how to get it better in the current location I mount it.

I do appreciate everyone's comments, as it helps me to improve my driving. And sometimes you need someone to be very critical to point out all the little things.